Leaping For Tyranid Warrior?

[badgeman]

Hi,
What would be the best way to make a tyranid warrior look like it has leaping?

Thanks,
Badgeman

P.S. I am not too good with green stuff.

[zark]

Have a look at my warriors in the modeling comp thread Link. Thats how I did it, no green stuffing just cut apart the legs and reposed them.

[shiro]

Jewelers saw is the best way to reposition plastic models. If the new pose is fragile consider adding a few pins (paperclips are enough) with a pin-drill.

[nuklearangel]

Yeah I cut the legs at the joints and just repositioned them, the arms too. Heres some examples. Oh yeah and pinning is definately a good idea otehrwise they may break after a while.

[SteelTitan]

I run a unit of 6 warriors with leaping (ST, RC, EC, WS) and i did the following:

* Repositioned the legs on 2.
* Added scenery on the base to enable extra dynamic poses (on top of grave stones or jumping over spiked fence) on 2.
* Used those flying model plastic pins on 2 warriors, (just drill a really small hole at the bottom of their ribcage), which makes them look like having jumped really high.

[hormagauntsam87]

if you are outfitting a unit of warriors specifically for CC, do you use RC and SC on ALL the models?? If so, where do you get your extra RC's, as the spuce only comes with one pair i think.

[zark]

Buy the bits seperately unfortunately

[WestRider]

If you use Scything Talons on your Stealers, you can use some of the Claws from that kit for the Warriors. They don't look as cool, but they work.

[nidaphile]

Yeah, the simple truth is you need to use the grenn stuff. For me I used the foam cutter the split the joints, then, after the cutter cooled, I stuck little bits of green stuff between the joints then used the cutter wire to put horizontial grooves on the joint to give it more of a biological feel.

P.S the issue with my method is you have to break and re-glue the joints once they've dried as the green stuff is not that adhesive. With glue It's almost as strong as a connection that you'd get with pinning but much faster (If a bit disconcerting for the fact that you have to break your models once they're built)